Mark joins the podcast as a high school band director to discuss the transition between elementary general to HS Band!

MusicFirst's Robin Hudson comes on the show to talk about his experiences working with music technology. This England native has many years of experience and offers a lot of insight into what English schools are doing that we could be doing more of. He also has some outlandish ideas that music educators should compose! Listen to find out more!

The start of a new season! It's our first show of 2018 and we're kicking it off with NAFME's Band Director of the year for 2017, Emily McNeil! The show also includes new segment "What's going on in my classroom" and the ever popular "Rapid Fire" with Emily McNeil!

Grad school student Katie Procell comes on the podcast to discuss being a graduate student studying vocal performance.

Kelly comes on the show to discuss the Mark Woods experience, her recruiting techniques, and the things she is doing now that she wishes she was doing earlier in her career.

I sit down and discuss where the podcast has been and the direction we are heading

I sit down with my interlochen co-worker, Will McLaughlin and chat him up on what it's like teaching middle school band in TX. I also check in with Brandon on our "Going to Grad School" Segment to hear about his Highlight of the Week.

We welcome Brandon Buterbaugh to the Tenuto family with our new Segment, "Going to grad school." We will be checking in on Brandon weekly for his "Highlight of the week" as well as other things that are going on in his grad school life. This will be a new segment every week and then another interview will follow like in previous episodes. Check it out!

What advice would you give your first year teacher self? That's a question that I ask everyone on the podcast, and we have the answers from all the Big Ten Directors. We wrap up the Big Ten Tour with some segments of the directors giving younger teachers advice. The tour is officially over and Tenuto is going back to interviewing teachers other than BIG Ten marching band directors. Here is a link for the NAFME article mentioned in the podcast http://ow.ly/Ss8330eGrsI

This week on the podcast I sit down with Barry Houser who describes to me all about his path to becoming the director of the Marching Illini